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"People are searching for anti-anxiety apps. It's partly anti-stress. I don't know how obvious the connections to the political climate here in America are. People are trying to find apps to calm them down rather than wind them up."

"It’s probably safe to assume that most venture capital firms are run by white men, so black hair is likely completely foreign to them," Yeluchi cofounder Antonia Opiah said. "But the size of the market shouldn’t be foreign to them....

Rosanna Pansino is one of the highest-paid women on YouTube per Forbes' estimates, making seven figures annually thanks mostly to ads and partnerships on her hugely popular channel, Nerdy Nummies, a 'geeky cooking show.' Meet the other nine list members.

For the 2018 30 Under 30 list of game-changing young entrepreneurs, Forbes highlighted 600 rising stars across 20 different industries. Many of the standouts this year -- across categories as varied as venture capital and Hollywood -- happen to be women.

Katrina Lake's 16.6% ownership of Stitch Fix-- which blends data science and human insight to match shoppers with clothes and accessories -- was worth just over $330 million as of Tuesday's market close.

This marks one of the biggest Series B rounds raised by women founders in recent memory, and takes total investment in The Wing to over $42 million. In April, the startup raised an $8 million Series A round.

After Bumble founder Herd turned down a $450 million buyout offer from the Match Group earlier this year, the dating giant approached the company again this fall to discuss a valuation well over $1 billion. It'd make the 28-year-old a centimillionaire.

These entrepreneurs have raised millions of dollars in funding between them. They’ve built game-changing platforms, apps, and bots. They've launched exciting new products across categories as varied as vibrators, kitchenware and nail art.

Twenty-three employers, including Uber and Levi's, have publicly committed to ensuring their workers have access to birth control coverage in the face of an ongoing attack on women's healthcare rights by the Trump admin.

"There's tons of bias, there's discrimination, there's not enough inclusion and diversity in all business, in all environments," said Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures. "We have got to keep fighting for it."